Collapsible pocket hanger for coats and hats



March 28, 1950 M. LEVEY 2,502,226

7 COLLAPSIBLE POCKET HANGER FOR COATS AND HATS Filed Jan. 24, 1948 IN V EN TOR.

MAURICE LEvEY Patented Mar. 28, 1950 means COLLAPS'IBLE POCKET HANGER FOR COATS AND HATS Maurice Levey, Yonkers, N. Y. I

Application January 24, 1948, Serial No. 4,165

2 Claims. (Cl.'211-104) This invention relates to hangers for articles such as hats and coats.

vMore particularly the invention aims to pro vide new and usefulimprovements in collapsible hangers of the-kind to be carried personally for use whenever and Wherever desired, as by bein temporarily attached to a wall, or, for outdoor use, to a fence board, a post, a tree or the like.

A particular-object of the invention is to provide a portable hanger so constructed that the same is collapsible to such small bulk, while so light in weight, as to permit it to be carried even in a vest pocketor in a small purse, yet a hanger which, conveniently and instantaneously attachable to and detachablefrom a selected support, may be extended for having suspended therefrom a plurality of fairly heavy articles.

Another particular object of the invention is to provide a hanger as above which consists solely of a unitary Scabbard member, a unitary auxiliary vmember slidable and rocka'oly movable relative to the scabbard member, and a prong means or equivalent for insertion into a selected support to position the Scabbard member so that the auxiliary member, after being endwisely partially withdrawn from the scabbard member, may be rocked through substantially 90 to extend the auxiliary member asanarm offset from the scabbard member.

Another particular object of the invent on is to provide a. scabbard member, below called the scabbard, which is so constituted that by simple die means it may be "stamped from sheet stock with substantially no waste of material, and an auxiliary member, below called the arm, also so constituted that by simple die means it may be stamped from sheet stock with substantially no waste of material.

According to the invention, said scabbard and said arm are so formed that a bottom portion of the scabbard, which when the device is expanded is usable as a hanger element additional to the extended arm, acts also as a stop for limitinga sliding movement of the arm to bemade to collapse the hanger.

Also according to the invention, there is D1 ovided in a collapsible hanger wherein an arm is rockable relative to a scabbard to extend the arm, an interaction between these two members such that ahinge means therebetween of the pin or a pintle including type is dispensed with, thereby to eliminate from the total manufacturing cost any allowance for assembly expense.

In the connection last mentioned, guide-rail and trackway elements are provided, the guiderail on thearm and the trackway on the scabbard, for coasting with the arm in its sliding movements relative to the Scabbard and for restraining the arm against shift thereof laterally of the scabhard when the arm is extended, .in combination with 'intenhooking parts and mutually abutting parts an the scabbard andon the arm so arranged that after the lower end of the arm has been slid upward to arrive near the top of the Scabbard, the may be swung down for substantially horizontal projection away from the Scabbard and for then being halted to remain so projected.

For further comprehension of the invention, and-of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, and to the appended embodiment of the invention, collapsed.

Fig. 2 shows the collapsed hanger in front elevation.

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation thereof.

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 1, but showing the hanger mounted on a suitable support and with the arm extended.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the Scabbard.

F g. 6 is a perspective view of the arm.

Fig. '7 is a top plan View of the arm.

Fig. 8 is a fragmentary rear elevation thereof, looking in the direction of the arrow 8 of Fig. '7.

Referring to the drawing in detail, the scabbard as a whole is marked [0, and the arm as a whole is marked l l The scabbard ill, which may be stamped from sheet metal, incorporates a back'wall 12, two side .w-alls i l and I5, and two front wall flanges l6 and ii having free side edges spaced to provide a trackway i8. Above the sidewalls i4 and t5 the back. wall it is forwardly curled or bent to present a transverse hook or lip l9, while the back wall below said side walls is forwardly curled to present a larger transverse hook 20. I

The arm H, which also may be stamped from sheet metal, comprises a main portion 2] of plate form, below which portion 2.! the arm is curled or bent to present a transverse hook or lip means 22. Above the portion 2! the arm is curl-ed to present a transverse hook 23.

A central longitudinal subdivision of the arm i l is formed up, along three parallel lines of fold, to provide a U-type rib 24. This rib, extends down along said main portion 2| of the arm, to

3 have a bottom length 24 of said rib in straightline prolongation of the portion of the rib thereabove; the hook or lip means 22 havin two cut outs a indicated at 25 and 26 in Fig. 8, to form the hook or lip means 22 as a pair of sidewisely spaced hook or lip elements.

The hook 23 of the arm is strengthened by a prolongation 24 of the rib 24; this rib portion 24 being flared outwardly toward the free end of the hook 23.

Offset from and suitably secured to the rear side of the scabbard I9 is a prong 21, whereby the scabbard may be temporarily but dependably attached to a suitable support, such as indicated at 28, and then for extension of the arm I I as shown in Fig. 4; whereupon a coat or the like may be suspended from the hook 20, and another garment or garments and/or a hat may be suspended from the arm.

When the device is collapsed as in Figs. 1-3, a suitable shield may be applied to the prong 2?; such, for instance, as an ordinary cork 29, as one captive on a string or cord 30 attached to the hook 29, so that the shield 29 may dangle when the hanger is in use, as shown in Fig. 4, or placed on the prong as indicated in dot and dash lines at 29 in Fig. 1 when the device is collapsed.

Assembly of the parts as in Figs. l-B is effected merely by sliding the arm II down all the way into the scabbard II], until the bottom of the rib portion 24 comes to rest against the hook 20. At the beginning of this sliding movement, with the arm I I arranged so that its hooks or lips 22 and 23 face the back wall I2 of the scabbard, the main plate portion M of the arm moves down between the side walls 54 and I 5 and between the back wall and the front flanges Iii-ll of the scabbard, and the parts are held against binding by the action of the rib 24 as a guide-rail relative to the trackway I8.

With the parts thus assembled, to extend the arm II as shown in Fig. 4 it is merely necessary to pull upward on the arm at its hook 23 until its bottom hooks or lips 22 engage the top hook or lip I9 of the scabbard, and then swing the arm down through 90 in a clockwise direction. Thereupon, as shown in Fig. 4, the lips 22 become interhooked with the lip I9, and the main plate portion 2I of the arm abuts the tops of the frontflanges I6 and I I of the scabbard, with the result that droop of the arm I I from the horizontal is prevented. At the same time, the arm is. held against lateral displacement from the scabbard, by retention of the portion 24 of the rib 24 in the trackway I8.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred embodiment of my invention, it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise construction herein disclosed and the right is reserved to all changes and modifications coming within the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is:

1. A collapsible article hanger comprising a scabbard, an arm endwisely slidable in the scabbard for partial withdrawal therefrom to bring the lower end of the arm to the upper end of the scabbard, the lower end of the arm having a portion offset rearwardly in relation to the arm and the upper end of the scabbard having a portion offset forwardly in relation to the scabbard. said offset portions being so shaped and arranged that they mutually engage when the arm has been upwardly withdrawn as above from the scabbard and become interhooked when thereafter the arm is swung down through substantially relative to the scabbard, and stop means partially carried by the arm and partially carried by the scabbard for coacting with such interhooking to prevent droop of the arm relative to the scabbard, there being means including a guide-rail and a trackway, said means partially carried by the arm and partially carried by the scab-bard for assisting to hold the arm to nonbinding travel lengthwisely of the scabbard, and there being a second stop means partially carried by the arm and partially carried by the scabbard for limiting downward sliding movement of the arm in the scabbard to prevent downward protrusion of the arm from the scabbard, said second stop means including the lower end of said guide rail and a hook portion on the bottom of the scabbard, said scabbard over the main portion of its length being of substantially C- shaped cross-section thereby to provide said trackway at the mouth of the C, said guide-rail being a rib-formation integrally carried by the arm, the first-named stop means including the top of said main length of the scabbard and a portion of the arm alongside said rib.

2. A collapsible article hanger comprising a scabbard, an arm endwisely sl dable in the scabbard for partial withdrawal therefrom to bring the lower end of the arm to the upper end of the scabbard, the lower end of the arm having a,po1- tion ofiset rearwardly in relation to the arm and the upper end of the scabbard having a portion offset forwardly in relation to the scabbard, said offset portions being so shaped and arranged that they mutually en age when the arm has been upwardly withdrawn as above from the scabbard and become interhooked when thereafter the arm is swung down through substantially 90 relative to the scabbard, and stop means partially carried by the arm and partially carried by the scabbard for coacting with such interhooking to prevent droop of the arm relative to the scabbard, said mutually engaging and interhooking offset portions being oppositely facing lips, and said rib being so extended that at the conclusion of said partial upward withdrawal of the arm from the scabbard the bottom portion of the rib remains in the trackway, whereby incidental to said downswing of the arm, said bottom portion of the rib remains in coaction with the trackway to prevent lateral shift of the arm effective to disengage the arm from the scabbard while the arm is extended.

MAURICE LEVEY.

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